Brian Horowitz

Biographic Data

ID3787260
NAMEBrian Horowitz
GIVEN NAMESBrian
FAMILY NAMEHorowitz
SIGNATUREHOROWITZ B
AFFILIATIONSTulane University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS55
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT55
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEThe Slavonic and East European…2025

  • The price of loyalty to Vladimir Jabotinsky

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEThe Journal of Israeli History2024References: 2

  • Mikhail Vladimirovich Bezrodnyi

    Open AccessBrian HorowitzARTICLESlavic Review2024

  • Canonizing Himself

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEEast European Jewish Affairs2022References: 1

    Simon Dubnov is considered the father of Russian Jewish historiography without rivels or peers. An examination of his memoir shows that he intentionally fought with his colleagues and belittled their contributions. The author of this essays tries to answer why and how Dubnov did this

  • Modernizing Jewish Education in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEThe Polish Review2022

    Mordechai Zalkin, professor of Jewish history at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, has devoted his life to the study of the Haskalah. A translation from the Hebrew original of 2008, this book represents the fruit of years of meditation on the subject.What is the Haskalah and why is the school so important to it? Haskalah refers to the movement of Jewish Enlightenment that most scholars agree began in Berlin in the middle of the eighteenth centu…

  • Swaying in Three Directions

    Open AccessBrian HorowitzARTICLEJewish History2021

  • A Leap over History

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEIsraeli Studies Review2021References: 9

    This article argues that Vladimir Jabotinsky envisioned ‘leaping over history’ to immediately achieve his goal of creating a Jewish majority in Eretz Israel. On several occasions he tried to break with evolutionary time and make events bend to his will. My arguments show him to be a revolutionary political thinker similar to Lenin, Stalin, or Mussolini, rather than a gradualist and parliamentarian. Looking at his career from this angle permits on…

  • It Will Yet Be Heard

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEThe Polish Review2021

  • Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925

    Brian Horowitz, Brian J HorowitzBOOKVladimir Jabotinsky's Russian…2020

  • Voices of the Warsaw Ghetto

    Open AccessBrian Horowitz, Brian J HorowitzARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2020

    Voices of the Warsaw Ghetto: Writing Our HistoriesDavid G Roskies David G Roskies (ed.), Voices of the Warsaw Ghetto: Writing Our Histories (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019), 280 pp., hardcover $28.00, electronic version available. Brian J Horowitz Brian J Horowitz Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 34, Issue 3, Winter 2020, Pages 510–512, ht…

  • Poland and Polin

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEThe Polish Review2020

  • Russian Idea—Jewish Presence

    Open AccessBrian HorowitzBOOKRussian Idea, Jewish Presence2019

    Petersburg Choral Synagogue (photograph by William Brumfield

  • The Russian-Jewish Tradition

    Brian Horowitz, William Craft BrumfieldBOOKRussian-Jewish Tradition2019

    Brian Horowitz, the well-known scholar of Russian Jewry, argues that Jews were not a people apart but were culturally integrated in Russian society. The book lets us grasp the meaning of secular Judaism and gives models from the past in order to stimulate ideas for the present.

  • Eliyahu Stern. Jewish Materialism

    Open AccessBrian HorowitzARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    The major claim of Eliyahu Stern’s Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s is that there was an intellectual revolution among Jews in the Russian Empire in the late 1860s and 1870s, the effect of which was the victory of “materialism.” By materialism Stern means something other than an anti-spiritual viewpoint exclusively. At times he speaks about Jews as a nation, the Jewish body, or the Jewish need for a livelihood. Materia…

  • The Return of the Ḥeder among Russian Jewish Education Experts, 1840–1917

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEPolin: Studies in Polish Jewry2018

  • ‘Building a fragile edifice’

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEPolin: Studies in Polish Jewry2017

  • Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia

    Brian Horowitz, Brian J HorowitzBOOKJewish Philanthropy and…2015

    The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia (OPE) was a philanthropic organization, the oldest Jewish organization in Russia. Founded by a few wealthy Jews in St. Petersburg who wanted to improve opportunities for Jewish people in Russia by increasing their access to education and modern values, OPE was secular and nonprofit. The group emphasized the importance of the unity of Jewish culture to help Jews integrate them…

  • Myths and counter-myths about Odessa’s Jewish intelligentsia during the late Tsarist period

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEJewish Culture and History2014Cited by: 1

    This paper examines the Odessa myth in the context of the Russian-Jewish intelligentsia of the nineteenth century. In a study of three contexts – the origins of the Russian-Jewish newspaper Rassvet; the (fictional) memoirs of Moshe Leib Lilienblum and Mendele Mocher Sforim (Solomon Abramovitch) who made Odessa their home; and the 1902 debates over schools in the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia – Horowitz discov…

  • Russian Idea--Jewish Presence

    Brian HorowitzBOOKRussian Idea, Jewish Presence2013

    In Russian Idea--Jewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career paths of Jewish intellectuals, who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed by outsiders. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian self-consciousness in order to correct critics who have always considered Russians and Jews to be polar opposites and even enemies. In fact, the best Russian Jewish intellectuals—Semyo…

  • The Jewish Dark Continent

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEJournal of Modern Jewish Studies2013

    This book really needs the names of two authors: Nathanial Deutsch, as well as Semyon (Shimon) An-sky. After all, Deutsch's book is built around An-sky's 2000+ questions that compose his “Jewish Et

  • S. A. An-sky—Dialogic Writer

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEPolin: Studies in Polish Jewry2012

  • Zhivago’s Children

    Open AccessBrian HorowitzARTICLEJournal of History2011

    "Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia, by Vladislav Zubok.." Canadian Journal of History, 46(2), pp. 405–406

  • Integration and its Discontents

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEPolin: Studies in Polish Jewry2010

  • Russian-Zionist Cultural Cooperation, 1916-18

    Brian HorowitzARTICLEJewish Social Studies2006Cited by: 2References: 1

    This article examines the unique interaction of Zionists and Russia's elite writers and poets in the creation of the journal Sborniki safrut . In the revolutionary years 1917–19, a genuine interpenetration of Jewish and Russian culture occurred; writers and thinkers found common ground on the basis of utopian urges, demands for political justice, literary collaboration, and a rethinking of Christian-Jewish relations

  • Identity Theft

    Brian Horowitz, Harriet MuravARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2005

    Harriet Murav's brief, challenging volume uses Avraam Uri Kovner (1842Kovner ( -1909) ) to examine an alternative model of Jewish acculturation in tsarist Russia.Kovner, a self-made (and re